Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babe Ponsonby is named George for His Majesty, St. Lawrence for the mighty river and Neuflize for his late maternal French grandfather, an exceedingly rich Paris banker. For days Canadian papers conjectured whether George St. Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby was likely to burst out crying during the Speech from the Throne, seemed to rather hope he would. Instead the Babe proved himself a Bessborough, did nothing, said nothing, with dignity. Lady Bessborough, gowned by Maggy Rouff in blue and silver lame. made an able substitute Queen Mary, her throat roped with pearls, her head regally supporting a tiara. In legal fiction...
Began the vice-Regal voice from the Throne, first in English, then in French: "Honorable Members of the Senate: "Members of the House of Commons: "I welcome you at a time when our country stands upon the threshold of a new era of Prosperity. It will be for you to throw wide the door! During the past year the grip of hard times has been broken...
When in 1909 plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell to opera, Manhattan's Metropolitan built her a throne on the stage, fairly swamped her with flowers, gifts, eulogies. Operagoers that bleak February night cheered themselves croupy while tears ran down many a wrinkled old cheek. But why was this great singer retiring at the peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba...
While the Tsar still sat his Throne, one Ivan Ivanovich and some 6,000 other Russians yielded to the blandishments of U. S. insurance agents, took out policies with the Equitable Life Assurance Society. They particularly liked the clause protecting claims "with all the property of the Equitable wherever located...
...group, Farmer Hans Dietz, a brisk little peasant with acres 60 miles south of Chicago. "Mr. Hitler is no more important than any American politician! We are Americans, first and last, and would go back to the Saar to vote even if the Kaiser was on his throne. There is nothing un-American about this...